Vodafone will use a range of private networking options to serve industrial verticals, it has said, as it develops its advanced LTE and emerging 5G proposition for enterprises. These options include spot usage of unlicensed LTE, localised usage of public LTE, and dedicated slices...
What is 5G anyway? Ericsson kicked off Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019 by stating it is deploying 5G networks at pace, faster than anyone else. But these networks – alongside those of its peers, and all the slick handsets (some foldable) on the stands – just...
Ruckus, Federated Wireless and Syniverse announced a collaboration that aims to provide enterprises with the ability to deploy secure private LTE networks in lieu of Wi-Fi, using the Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum at 3.5 GHz.
All three of the companies bring their own piece...
Ericsson sought to set itself apart from Nokia in its approach to industrial markets at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, as it made clear it will serve new industrial customers via its traditional operator customers.
Finnish vendor Nokia has stated it will go direct to...
Dave Wright, president of the CBRS Alliance, wants to be clear: the 3.5 GHz shared spectrum band should not be considered an IoT band. “It's very much a multi-purpose band,” he says, really in response to persistent questioning about IoT scenarios for private operation...
Throughout the wireless industry, Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) has ignited speculative optimism – like a gold rush – predicated upon business opportunities to enable indoor and outdoor deployments such as Private LTE, Densification, 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT), and to address...
Nokia’s biggest opportunity, it explains, is to go beyond its traditional customer base to serve industrial markets directly, with private networking solutions. The total market for private LTE, and later private 5G, masts is potentially twice as large in straight volume terms as the...
Driverless trucks by equipment manufacturer Komatsu are the first in the mining industry to be passed to run on a private LTE network in commercial operations.
Komatsu’s ‘autonomous haulage system’ (AHS), which governs unmanned operation of its ultra-class FrontRunner mining trucks, passed qualification after a...
Private LTE provider Ukkoverkot supporting wide range of industrial applications
Industrial operators in Finland are investing in private LTE networks to support internet of things implementations that are part of larger digital transformation strategies. With wins from mining, port operations and other industrial interests, Nokia...
American Tower and Ruckus Networks partnered on CBRS project
With rules governing general authorized and priority access licenses settled by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, there's significant momentum around the commercialization of the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band. In the latest, Arris...
The private LTE market is expected to see significant growth over the next few years, according to a number of analysts' projections. So what is private LTE?
What is private LTE?
Private LTE, quite simply, is envisioned as standards-based Long Term Evolution networks designed to serve...
pdvWireless hopes to leverage its 900 MHz footprint for private broadband, including LTE
The most-discussed spectrum for U.S. private LTE use is the Citizens Broadband Radio Service band at 3.5 GHz, or the unlicensed spectrum at 5 GHz most commonly used by Wi-Fi. But
there is...
What are some examples of private LTE use cases?
Emerging private LTE technologies are seen as a middle ground between enterprise-class Wi-Fi and relying on commercial carrier LTE networks: providing broadband data capabilities with mobility and roaming capabilities, SIM-based security and other features to support...
Private LTE market expected to see substantial growth in the next few years
The private LTE market is expected to see significant growth in the next few years, as a mature LTE ecosystem makes LTE an increasingly attractive network technology choice for enterprises in a...
MulteFire 1.1 spec focused on private LTE for the internet of things
With broad interest from industrial players who see private LTE as a big opportunity to take control of cellular needs and from operators looking to augment licensed spectrum holdings by deploying cellular in...
MulteFire delivers the reliability and security of LTE without licensed spectrum and addresses key internet of things use cases
The internet of things (IoT) is seen as a key driver of digital transformation in a wide range of enterprise and industrial segments, but IoT success...
Small-cell-as-a-service offering embraced by Chelsea Football Club
This week Ericsson announced decreasing sales across all business units including its managed services division, but Patrik Jakobson, head of network-as-a-service, a subset of the managed services unit, expects small-cell-as-a-service (ScaaS) to gain momentum in not only the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK3k8FdRwR0&index=2&list=PL8AD95E4F585237C1
Neville Meijers, VP business development, and Mehmet Yavuz, VP engineering, describe Qualcomm's trial network of a private LTE network for industrial IoT. New technologies, such as MulteFire and LTE-based CBRS, make it possible to deploy private LTE networks without access to licensed spectrum. This...
https://youtu.be/eTZwwL_nKiM
Neville Meijers, Qualcomm VP of Business Development, explains that private LTE networks can use licensed or unlicensed spectrum. These networks give enterprises a way to securely connect devices that require variable rates of data transmission, ranging from gigabits per second all the way down...
Nokia is addressing the industrial IoT market by tailoring its cloud packet core solution for private LTE networks. The company said that private LTE networks are becoming a preferred way for transportation and energy companies to deliver mission-critical services. Valued at less than a...
